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This is not a complete list of the springs. There are, for example, 

 northeast of the village and about a mile from the High Rock, the il| 

 Ten springs, or Excelsior, and the Eureka White Sulphur group. 

 Opposite Congress Park, across Broadway, is the Ainsworth. To 

 the south are the Chief, Adams and Arondack (formerly the Kis- 

 singen) besides many drilled wells. The accompanying map gives 

 all these locations and several others not specifically referred to. 



In Ballston Spa, mineral springs were known toward the close 

 of the eighteenth century. The modern ones, however, come up 

 through drill holes which are put down through slate to the lime- 

 stone at depths varying from 604 to 715 feet. There are four now 

 active, namely, the Iron springs, not possessing much if any gas at 

 present, the Artesian Lithia, Hide's Franklin and a new one recently 

 opened called the Washington. 



In the 1835 edition of the work of Dr J. H. Steel entitled 

 ''Analysis of the Mineral Waters of Saratoga and Ballston," it is 

 stated that the Quaker springs are situated ten miles southeast of 

 Saratoga Springs and that they contain lime, magnesia, iron, and a 

 certain percentage of common salt and soda. The gaseous contents 

 are small in comparison with those already described; their mineral 

 impregnation is not sufficient to entitle them to much attention. 



These springs still exist and are feeble in their manifestations of 

 activity. A few bubbles of carbonic acid gas and of sulfuretted 

 hydrogen come through the waters. 



In Mather's Report on the First District, New York State Geo- 

 logical Survey, 1843, page 103, there is the following record of 

 Reed's mineral spring: 



This spring is in South Argyle, Washington county, near the 

 Moses kill. It is an acidulous carbonated water, something like the 

 Saratoga waters, but the gas does not escape very abundantly from 

 the fountain. Bubbles of carbonic acid gas rise from the bottom of 

 the fountain at short intervals, and the water has a pleasant acidu- 

 lous taste, but it does not sparkle. It is resorted to by the people 

 around and many ride there from Saratoga to drink the water for 

 a change. It is a pleasant acidulous water. It is used by the people 

 of the vicinity for raising their dough preparatory to baking it, no 

 yeast being required. . . . The spring rises from a fissure in 

 limestone near its junction with slate rocks, which are metamorphic, 

 or belong to the Taconic division of rocks. 



This spring must have been on the east side of the Hudson river 

 and at least fifteen miles northeast of Saratoga Springs. 



The most northerly of all the springs now important is the Gurn, 

 eight miles from the village of Saratoga Springs. It is very actively 



